Dreams, Golden Slippers, Arna Bontemps, 1941
Langston Hughes Berühmte Zitate
The Black Man Speaks, Jim Crow's Last Stand, 1943
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Band 13, Autobiographie: The Big Sea, Verleger: University of Missouri, 2002, S. 36, ISBN 082621410X.
Original: You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word “Negro” is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.
Langston Hughes: Zitate auf Englisch
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Kontext: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
“Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.”
Quelle: The Collected Poems
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Quelle: The Panther and the Lash
“Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard?”
"Island"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variante: What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?
“There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.”
"Same in Blues"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variante: A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.
“O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be!”
Let America Be America Again (1935)
“Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.”
Let America Be America Again (1935)
"Final Curve"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.”
"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)
"Morning After," (l. 1-6), from Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)